I don’t normally write reviews cloud software, I’m more of a geek than an author and prefer writing code to English. In fact I could only manage a C grade at O-Level English but A’s for Maths and Physics, so nothing is surprising. What is in a name? Sage renamed their Sage One Accounting to [Read the full article…]
How to remove WP Bakery from WooCommerce shop page
Problem with jQuery date picker and The7 theme The issue The problem was a date picker ( jquery ui datepicker ) provided by a small add on plugin was not operating correctly on a WooCommerce shop page withing a theme that has baked in WP Bakery ( The7 theme ). The investigation The obvious place [Read the full article…]
Archiving old files after 18 months
In a WordPress installation I have an uploads folder that contains html files, that need to be archived away after 18 months. As the links are dynamically built I don’t need to worry about anything except moving them. If they were normal WordPress uploads that would be different. So in this case a simple monthly [Read the full article…]
Securing Gravity Forms Uploads
By default, Gravity Forms uploads files into the uploads folder, so by definition, these are readable by anyone. The file names are obscure, but that isn’t good enough if you are uploading personal information like proof of address. One solution is to create a ‘safe’ protected by authorisation (e.g. basic auth over SSL ), so [Read the full article…]
Hide a Google Form in a WordPress page until a box is ticked
This is an example of an embedded Google Form that is revealed only on ticking a box If you agree to this, tick the box and a form appears : Loading… This is how it is done: First get your ’embed code’ from your Google Form ( Form – Send – <> Embed HTML ) [Read the full article…]
Linking WooCommerce to a Spreadsheet using Google Sheets and the REST API
IMPORTANT NOTE As of 22 Oct 2019 – this script seems to be in an infinite loop – so use this as a coding concept ONLY. I will debug it in due course, and update – BUT if you spot the issue first please do leave me a comment below with your solution. Following on [Read the full article…]
WordPress REST API retrieve data and email it as an xls using Google Sheets
Google Script to read a WordPress REST API endpoint into a Google Sheet and then email it ( no titles in this one, see other tutorials for titles )
Stopping Genesis Full menu loading momentarily before the responsive menu
Many, if not all of StudioPress’s older themes flash up the full menu for a glimpse before the responsive hamburger comes in. This doesn’t look great but is easy to fix in 2 steps. First, tweak the CSS so that the start of the responsive section reads body.js .genesis-nav-menu { display: none; } the responsive [Read the full article…]
Code snippet to change notification of new users
Example plugin to set admin notification of new users. In this case it uses the first user defined as shop_manager role <?php /* * * Plugin Name: Notify New Users to Shop Manager * Plugin URI: https://fullworks.net/products/custom-plugin-development/ * Description: Needs Woo Commerce of Course * Version: 1.0 * Author: Fullworks * Author URI: http://fullworks.net/ * [Read the full article…]
Putting it all together – authenticate, read and update WordPress from a spreadsheet
This is my fourth post in my series of how to build a script to manage WordPress data via the API and a spreadsheet. If you have arrived here without looking at the others you probably should start at the beginning here. In this tutorial I’m going to handle updating and then pull it all [Read the full article…]
